He Danggui played with the tea-cup and nodded, “Since you offer the same price, I guess Shopkeeper Li was right about its value… Alas, now I have to go back and persuade the Madam to let me take it back and then sell it in Yangzhou.”
“Sell it?!” Shopkeeper Jing asked excitedly, “You want to sell this coffin? Can I have a look?”
He Danggui nodded, “Of course, please.”
Shopkeeper Jing turned to open the mahogany tool box on his counter, which contained several soft rulers and tools for testing the hardness of woods. As he stretched out the soft ruler and measured the coffin board, he looked up to find out the secrets of He Danggui, “Miss, you don’t sound like a native, do you? Where did you get the coffin?”
He Danggui took a sip of tea to moisten her throat and said, “The truth is, I’m a little maid of Luo’s Mansion in Yangzhou City, and the Miss I served is a cousin of the family. Early this month, the Miss died accidentally. The Ma
He Danggui didn’t understand what Gao Jue was saying after a few seconds, and thought he also liked gossips. After a while, she told him, “Because our magnetic fields are not the same, and we’ll get hurt if we stay together for too long.”“Magnetic field?” Gao Jue turned around, wrinkled his bushy eyebrows and asked, “What does that mean?”“It means... Childe Duan is a good man, but I am a wicked girl who can’t give him what he wants. Also, he can’t give me what I want.” He Danggui also went to see the sparrow pecking at the side of the road and smiled gently, “There is a kind of man that women want to be his matchmaker when they see him instead of keeping him for themselves. Master Gao, what do you think the reason is?”“Why?” Gao Jue asked in perfect coordination.He Danggui waved her hands to Zhen Jing who was behind her and smiled at Gao Jue, “Please forgive me, Master. We are both hungry because we did not eat enough food for
He Danggui accepted the money with a smile and repeated the shopkeeper’s words, “Thank you very much. Good luck to you. Please take care!” She even copied the tone perfectly.The girl in red snorted, shook her sleeves and went out of the tailor’s shop to the north. After her, He Danggui went out to the south. The girl in red walked a few steps, could not help looking back and only saw a yellow figure growing further and further.“Hey, stop, stop, stop! You stop there!” The girl in red shouted petulantly.All the people stopped to look at the girl in red, but the yellow figure became smaller and smaller. The girl in red was angry and ran so fast at once. When she approached He Danggui, she clasped the scapula of her left shoulder, then turned her right arm backwards, pushed her toward a small corner of the roadside and pressed her against the wall, although the target was smaller than her.“Hey, why don’t you follow my steps?” The g
“But Master, he is just a dirty little beggar.” The coachman said hesitantly, “I’m afraid it’s inappropriate to take him into the mansion.”“Stupid! It’s all your fault!” Master Luo Baiqian shouted, “It’s not proper to take him in. So, we just leave him here, in front of the gate? Someone in the porter will check the record to see who has been in and out at this time. You think I can escape that easy?”“Yes, yes, Master, you are right!” The coachman nodded and said, “I’ll get him in right now!”Master Luo Baiqian thought for a moment, and then ordered, “Listen, get him in from the side door and put him in the servant’s room of the northern courtyard. If he could survive, you can ask someone to fill a prescription for him; if he died because of this, you should take him away from the side door and throw him on the mass grave.”The coachman nodded repeatedly. But the Master stopped him right after he got started, “Do you know how to
“Meow- - meow!” There was a big tabby cat in the rockery, which frightened Second Mistress Luo a lot. She almost slipped for stepping backward at a moss-covered cobblestone pavement.Luo Baiqian stepped forward swiftly to support her.Second Mistress Luo placed her hands upon her heart, looking very pale. She was now full of feminine delicacy. Luo Baiqian let go of her and asked, “Second Aunt, are you hurt? Did the brute cat stretch you?” Second Mistress Luo shook her head softly, looking frightened.Luo Baiqian was so close to Second Mistress Luo that he saw the dark circles under her eyes and tiredness on her beautiful face, even though she covered it with thick foundation. Looking down, there was a layer of white silk collar peering out from the collar of the skirt, which was decorated with various flowers and silver threads. It occurred to Luo Baiqian that maybe Second Mistress Luo got upset for her brother’s death. However, she had already
Luo Baiqian went up to Madam Luo to give a salute and said with a smile, “Grandma, it’s a shame that I forgot to visit you because I helped my father to check the accounts these days. You are in a hurry to get me here. Did I make any mistakes?”Madam Luo cheerfully asked Gan Cao to bring him a chair with brocade to sit on and said, “You are wanted here by your Second Aunt. Hearing your mother had a headache and your wife was busy, she asked you here since she met you by chance and knew you are free today. You are here to represent the First Branch of our family. Your aunt mysteriously said she would make an announcement. But I don’t know what it is. Anyway, I haven’t seen you for days and I really miss you—Ouch, Qian! Come here and let me see. There is a plaster on your neck. What’s wrong with you?”Luo Baiqian explained in detail, “I stayed up late to study yesterday and fell asleep in the yard outside the mansion. I didn’t expect there were mosquitoes in
Second Mistress Luo lost her words. She didn’t expect that Gao Dashan’s wife would come here specially to report this to Madam Luo. After all, He Danggui didn’t share the same surname with them. She was always living cowardly and miserably, even the servants despised her. Why would anyone suddenly speak for her?The complexion of Ding Rong’s wife changed. She actively knelt down and kowtowed to apologize to Madam Luo, “Madam, Second Mistress Luo didn’t know that we didn’t send the sedan of our mansion. It’s all my fault. I was too self-assertive and wanted to pick Third Miss up as soon as possible, so I asked Gao Dashan’s wife to walk all night with me. It was the dinner time before our departure, so I dared not bother you and Second Mistress Luo’s meal. Therefore, I couldn’t get the pass to use the house’s sedan. I was inconsiderate of this matter, so I wronged Third Miss. But if Third Miss thought the sedan was not good, she could bring it up at that time, and I would
Zhen Jing stared at He Danggui from head to toe as if she knew her for the first time. After a long time, she said, “It turns out that you are a heroine!”He Danggui was also surprised and looked at the small hole in the trunk. Only she knew that she just kicked it casually! Zhen Jing snatched the wine jar and medicine package from He Danggui’s hands and said excitedly, “Heroine, I’m responsible for depositing things, and you’re responsible for protecting me! Drive all the bad guys away!”He Danggui shook her wrists and chuckled, “It’s unnecessary to hit them. I guess they have seen what happened just now. Now the three men have run away with great speed.” One of them seemed to knock over a fruit stand at the roadside. He Danggui listened to the sound attentively. She could faintly hear a woman’s voice shouting, “You got my pears dirty! Pay for my pears. You can’t leave! Pay for my pears!”Zhen Jing went around in circles for four
The owner of that pair of beautiful eyes suddenly smiled. A light green men’s robe embroidered with white lotus made the girl’s appearance extraordinarily appealing, just like an exquisite jade. Though people could easily identify that she was a girl, she still had a natural and unrestrained quality that matched with her men’s outfit.Seeing that Gao Jue didn’t wear his cloak, He Danggui asked, “Master Gao, did you find your cloak? Why did you come back? Didn’t you find your sister-in-law?”Gao Jue said nothing with his hands cross behind his back.He Danggui quickly found that he was holding something in his hands, so she asked curiously, “What is it in your hands? You’re so weird.”Gao Jue paused for a moment and passed the thing in his hands to He Danggui with a low voice, “It’s my compensation to you. But now that you’ve changed into a men’s outfit, it is useless.”“A compensation?” He Danggui asked in surprise. Sh